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@nina: True. Originally he was multiple gods… as you probably know Elohim is plural. Then he was one angry god. Now he’s a three-in-one nice god who’s going to send you to hell if you don’t believe in him (is that really an improvement, though?).

Much as I dislike the theory of a multiverse, it opens up the likelihood that at least some universes are creations of sufficiently advanced civilisations. Which opens up the further intriguing possibility that our particular universe is the result of some 6th former’s physics project. Whoever the little sod is, I’d give him a D+.

The powers that be are trying to watch the movie, the kids keep scampering back and forth to go potty and get popcorn, then wonder why there is a certain amount of criticism. Pay attention, you’ll learn more from what the wise don’t say than babbling idjuts.

@MrGronk, that reminds me of a side story in one of Robert Heinlein’s books – Jehovah, instead of being the omniscient ruler of creation was really a minor and terribly officious bureaucrat in a larger operation.

(And no, he’s not really all that nice .. practically told the scientific community that while they were still in the stone ages in terms of sequencing the human genome, he would’ve mapped all the genes … or something in that line. We all know he lost and it’s funny that he gives the impression that he was the first to succeed nowadays.)

Religions would say that god loves you. He loves you SO MUCH that it takes every bit of his infinite mercy and then some to keep him from throwing you into a fire. If you are devoted to him and he is in a good mood.

Who made hell? The Bible I’ve got says God created ‘the heavens and the earth’, and talks about a ‘new heaven and a new earth’, nothing about hell.
Artificial life is neither good nor evil; like everything else, its whether we can use it to serve us well, or we create our own hell.

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